Pointless Announcements
I was alone in the cinema auditorium for Cloud Atlas so basically, the movie was just for me.
Awesome! 
I love that moment.
Done with the seminar. It was pretty awkward (everybody talking to each other, me not knowing anyone, being quiet) and I felt lonely at times, but eh, I'm gonna pretend I don't care at all. Should get ready for the Christmas dinner soon!
November 23?
I call it Christmas!
/tree
//lights
///Auntie Mame
This is why we can't have nice things.
Clubbing is roughly one million times better than casinoing.
Granted... I've never casinoed. But it sounds boring and pointless as hell. I like clubs but I like dancing and I've never gotten drunk at one or hooked up with anyone I've met there. It's possible I've missed the point of them.
I promise, I've spent actual time thinking about how cool a lollipop with a glowstick stick would be. Take a picture of it, pleaseeeeeee.
I mean, I could google it... but it wouldn't be the same.
I've been motivating my friend to do a stand up routine. He's got plenty of material and I helped him put it down on paper because he kept procrastinating. I'm such a good friend/not exactly but basically girl friend.
"We're developing a new citizenry. One that will be very selective about cereals and automobiles, but won't be able to think."
— Rod Serling
"Chuck calls Noah fortnightly on his bakelite rotary phone and gives him publisher's insider information and stock tips."- Tuffy
I promise, I've spent actual time thinking about how cool a lollipop with a glowstick stick would be. Take a picture of it, pleaseeeeeee.
I mean, I could google it... but it wouldn't be the same.
You Texans are so deprived of cool things. I remember having an alien lollipop that glowed in the dark and was on a glow stick. I think the reason they don't make those that much is because of how toxic those glow stick things are. That's also why I'm so um challenged.
Annual testing says I'm HIV negative. But don't tell any of my exes that.
This is why we can't have nice things.
I loved the Christmas dinner! After the food I started to get pretty bored though. I wasn't really talking to anyone, because everybody was getting a little too drunk to have a normal conversation with. So then I decided to leave.
Having lunch with mother in law and Pål Martin's brother today, yay!
We put up the xmas tree! Lucy loved getting into the box of decorations.
I hope you took pictures!
This is why we can't have nice things.
I did! I'll post em tommorrow.
Oh man. We put it up on Christmas Eve. Such a bummer.
If it makes you feel any better, on Thursday I was thankful for your weird boner for me.
We put up the tree at my mom's yesterday. It was a very sweaty ordeal.
Right now I've been awake since 2:30 and I'm not happy about it. I was going to go get breakfast, but I walked outside and realized I didn't drive home last night. So I just had some cereal and I'm going to go try, yet again, to go back to sleep.
"I'm glad I live in the GPS era. In a different century, I would've set off to visit the other side of the village and wandered off into the mountains and been eaten by a carnivorous plant. Or discovered the Americas."
-LaJessica
I started a 1000-piece puzzle with this image. Only made the frame and the writing, the lighting in my room sucks and I have to find another place to work on it.
Just emailed that Catfish dude because I need to meet all of you.
But really, I did. But not because of you guys. I don't think MTV would understand our relationship.
"We're developing a new citizenry. One that will be very selective about cereals and automobiles, but won't be able to think."
— Rod Serling
"Chuck calls Noah fortnightly on his bakelite rotary phone and gives him publisher's insider information and stock tips."- Tuffy
Oh my god, it comes earlier every year.
Holy... shit. I'm at my old house, and after rummaging through some of my old shit, I found a comp book that I used to just write a bunch of bullshit and draw caricatures of my teachers. I'm pretty thrown aback with my high school self. I used to think that guy was an asshole and a moron, but... Christ, he was a better writer than I am on my best day. Also, not a bad artist.
Why the fuck did I give up on my dreams the way that I did? I should've stuck with creative writing.
Si vis pacem, para bellum
Isaac, I've looked through old notebooks and thought the same thing. Maybe it's because old cells being replaced and constantly changing - we're just a better (hopefully) better version of our old selves.
But really, I did. But not because of you guys. I don't think MTV would understand our relationship.
Been meaning to watch that show!
We went to the Sierra Nevada brewery in Chico and had a tour on friday. And then tasted lots of different beers. It was really, seriously, superfucking awesome. I forgot my camera! I was bummed about that.
I bought beer that I can't get here, then proceeded to give half of it away to everyone I stopped and saw on the way home. Ah well.
Did lots of other stuff too.
You guys collecting clothing tags is interesting. I never thought of doing that. I collect all kinds of weird stuff. My favorite collection I have had for over a decade, it is just comics out of newspapers or magazines that really really hit that perfect nerve of humor for whatever is going on in life at that moment. Only the very best ones. I have a photo album I keep them in, in mostly chronological order. It is sort of a tracking of my life and sense of humor over time. It will take me at least another ten years to fill the book I have now, at the rate I have been going. It is my journal of how fucking funny all the crap is in the end.
Sierra Nevada is some decent beer.
This is why we can't have nice things.
Indeed!
The tour was fantastic. The whole brewery was so beautiful, nothing cold factoryish about the place at all. It was filled with art and everything was shiny and hearing the history of it all, I swear it was a perfect example of the American dream, from their startup to where they are now to their great efforts for sustainability and how freaking awesome they treat their employee's. They give them a *beer buck* that is redeemable for a case of beer with every pay check and have a daycare center on site and a masuese and they are still family owned and all this other great stuff. Can't believe I forgot my camera that afternoon. Plus. Great beer!
I promise, I've spent actual time thinking about how cool a lollipop with a glowstick stick would be. Take a picture of it, pleaseeeeeee.
I mean, I could google it... but it wouldn't be the same.
You Texans are so deprived of cool things. I remember having an alien lollipop that glowed in the dark and was on a glow stick. I think the reason they don't make those that much is because of how toxic those glow stick things are. That's also why I'm so um challenged.
I wondered about this toxic thing. I tried to buy glow sticks a few years about, I was about 24, and the lady said, "Have you got ID? You need to be 16 to buy these." What an idiot. Like I looked so young I'd immediately get out and start chewing on them.
My kids busted open glow sticks years ago, when they were little, late halloween evening and I found them all covered in glowing stuff.
When I called poison control the lady I got laughed and laughed. I was all *WTH LADY?* and then she told me I was the fourth or fifth call in a row about exactly that thing and it was perfectly non toxic.
Maybe she had a sick sense of humor and was trying to kill little kids???? I am worried now. 
That's weird! The woman might have just ID'd me out of spite, she had that look about her. Some people are like that - slightest bit of power... Or could just be she was misinformed. Until now, I'd always assumed they were toxic.
I've gained a surprisingly large amount of weight since I've been here. It's mostly happened since school started and I've been going out and drinking and eating. And I got sick, so I was being really lazy. But seriously, it's kind of fucking ridiculous and gross.
Uuuuugh I so don't want to leave the house and face the cold.
The internet hardly works during the weekends, what's up with that? Way annoyed.
I just read a thread from 2010. Ya'll were fucking crazy. I wouldn't have survived that shit.
The tour was fantastic. The whole brewery was so beautiful, nothing cold factoryish about the place at all. It was filled with art and everything was shiny and hearing the history of it all, I swear it was a perfect example of the American dream, from their startup to where they are now to their great efforts for sustainability and how freaking awesome they treat their employee's. They give them a *beer buck* that is redeemable for a case of beer with every pay check and have a daycare center on site and a masuese and they are still family owned and all this other great stuff. Can't believe I forgot my camera that afternoon. Plus. Great beer!
We're supposed to be getting one of those here. I was thinking about seeing if I could get a job there and now that you've said all this, I really think I should.
"We're developing a new citizenry. One that will be very selective about cereals and automobiles, but won't be able to think."
— Rod Serling
"Chuck calls Noah fortnightly on his bakelite rotary phone and gives him publisher's insider information and stock tips."- Tuffy
The tour was fantastic. The whole brewery was so beautiful, nothing cold factoryish about the place at all. It was filled with art and everything was shiny and hearing the history of it all, I swear it was a perfect example of the American dream, from their startup to where they are now to their great efforts for sustainability and how freaking awesome they treat their employee's. They give them a *beer buck* that is redeemable for a case of beer with every pay check and have a daycare center on site and a masuese and they are still family owned and all this other great stuff. Can't believe I forgot my camera that afternoon. Plus. Great beer!
We're supposed to be getting one of those here. I was thinking about seeing if I could get a job there and now that you've said all this, I really think I should.
You definitely should. The way they run the place is how business should be done in order for us to have a healthy country.
They also have a health care clinic that is available to all of their full time employee's and their families as soon as they start, no waiting period. And their sustainability efforts have had them reduce their landfill waste by 90% (resusing everything possible even the Co2 that is created in the beer fermenting process is reused in their restaurant for the beer taps, they used to buy something like three or four barrels a week for the taps now they only buy a dozen or something a year, and they use solar power [the whole roof was filled with panels] to produce 60% of the power they need and on and on).
James' cousins fiance used to work there and said it was the only place he has ever worked (he is 40ish so he has had his share of jobs) where the employee's seemed to always be happy with no one miserable or bitching at all.
I know after going there I will feel great about myself supporting our country to be a better place, even in a small way, every time I buy their beer. That is cheesy, but I don't care.
Lucy is home sick again. Bloody daycare germs.
Aw, poor bubba! Other people's children's germs, ewww... haha
I hope she gets better soon
An uncle of mine is in town for 2 days so we're taking him out to dinner tonight. Should be nice, I haven't seen anyone in my family (other than via Skype) since last Christmas.
Back in Rochester, back to school tomorrow. Finally get to sleep in a bed after like a week of sleeping on couches.
We had a great Thanksgiving. I love my husband's family so much.
A few friends and I went out for black friday and for some reason were joking about the song jitterbug all night. We're going to start the most vicious, violent gang ever and run around singing Wham! so I made this mashup. Warning, nsfw:gore-ish, scene from american history x.
http://youtubedoubler.com/5Sa6
Blah Barf Gag
James offered me a piece of this no bake cookie he bought at the store earlier and I asked did it have any peanut in it and he said not at all and then it did!
peanutbutter was the third ingredient listed when I looked to make sure I wasn't imagining bad flavors!
He shared his desert with me and I hated it and couldn't hide the fact and he didn't realise it had awful things in it and I hope he isn't sad but he might be and I feel bad now. 
Mmm, peanut butter.
PA - I'm flying to Stockholm with my coworkers tomorrow! Will be gone until Thursday evening. We're gonna be visiting the university there.
I realize I curse a lot. I mean I curse in almost every conversation I have. I say Shit and Fuck more times than I can even count.
As your attorney, my advise to you is to start drinking heavily(er).-Tuffy
You likely have a shitty vocabulary. I read that shit somewhere.
Gizmo has begun spraying. Which means that little bastard will be losing his bits very shortly.
Seriously though, whf, he is only seven months. Sampson didn't start spraying until he was three years old.
Maybe it is because Sampson and Winnie are both fixed? I think Sampson started spraying in the house shortly after we had Winnie fixed, he only ever did it outside before that.
Bullshit.
I mean, uh... unfact.
The vet recommended that I get Baby Kitty neutered before he reached sexual maturity, which in male cats happens around 6 months. I think I had him done right around that time so he wouldn't start spraying or be tempted to run off. And he ran off anyway!
sob sob sob
I miss that cat so much and it still hurts. Is it crazy that I think about him every day? I STILL have ads posted online and get updates from all the shelters within 100 miles of our house.
Bullshit.
I mean, uh... unfact.
I have a decent vocabulary. I dont just use shit and fuck. Just often, and in variation.
And cat spray is terrible stuff. It never goes way.
As your attorney, my advise to you is to start drinking heavily(er).-Tuffy
sob sob sob
I miss that cat so much and it still hurts. Is it crazy that I think about him every day? I STILL have ads posted online and get updates from all the shelters within 100 miles of our house.
I'm sorry.
Sampson used to prowl really far, James was working about two miles from our house once an saw him one day. It was worrisome. He just hangs out and is lazy and fat the past couple years now.
In 2001 my mom was making a slow transition move to California from Oregon and lost her kitty Shnookims in the woods in Northern california about half way between. For several months she stopped and called him every week or so when she passed by, then late summer I drove down with her and she said we were going to stop and in my head I just registered it as we are going to stop and get the cat, not stop and look, stop and get him. I knew he had been lost for months but my brain just registered it that way. Anyway, we stopped and called for about twenty minutes and I was thinking where the hell is that dang kitty then all of the sudden he comes barreling out of the woods and straight to my mom, completely feral and ratty and skinny. We stole a cat carrier off the front porch of a nearby friend of hers to put him in, I think she sent a check to replace it later.
I have no clue how we managed to fit the cat in the car. Man, that was one of the more interesting adventures I have had, the whole story of that entire trip. so many crazy things happened. That car was so packed the only place to fit the couple of river rocks I picked up was in my empty coffee cup. Not kidding.
Anyway, you might still find him. Don't feel crazy for not giving up!
Maybe making a triple serving of rice with steamed veggies and cheese was a bad idea.